Baby choke when drinking too fast
My new born is too fast in drinking milk from breast and even feeder. The nipple size of feeder is 1, don't know if they make 0. What should I do? He chokes a lot and scares me. He is 2 weeks old.
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You want to slow the flow of milk and/or allow the baby to control the flow better, and you can achieve this by playing with the baby's nursing position. First is to use gravity - use breastfeeding positions where the baby is higher than the nipple, like the laid-back/biological nurturing position. To give the baby more control, sit him or her upright on the mom's lap, facing her breast.
I was also told by a breastfeeding consultant that you can reduce the flow by literally holding the blade of your hand firmly on the breast, perpendicular to the nipple.
If the baby is coughing, or spluttering, that means they are simply attempting to maintain his/her breathing whilst breastfeeding; they are not in danger. Suckling and sucking take practice (they are two different mouth motions). Your kid will figure it out.
First: don't worry! The fact that he chokes is scary, but it also shows that his body reacts to speed of the milk.
My daughter had a similar issue (the milk came to fast for her to handle properly). We used the following tricks to great effect:
Breastfeeding: use a Nipple shield. This enabled her to latch on and drink comfortably.
Bottle: we switched to prenatal bottle teat.
Small caveat for the Nipple shield: she became dependant upon it when breastfeeding, so we had to dedicated some time (about a month) to get her off it again. Now she drinks quite happily from the breast.
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